post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

When did contracts start requiring that the star's face be a certain % of the poster?

Bought a dollar VHS of The Cannonball Run inspired by this thread. Ugggggggh. We gave up after fifteen minutes.

http://i.imgur.com/3nJQs6V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8GElLMT.jpg

^^Good one. The bottom one is the art on my dvd, which has since been replaced by this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b6ATnCRLL.jpg

Russ Meyer didn't use this style enough

Image NSFW

http://www.favouritefilm.com/acatalog/BEYONDTHEVALLEYFRENCH.jpg

The latter inspired this:
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2010/244/0/1/ultravixens_by_claudia_r-d2xruq2.jpg

It's amazing how much the middle Night Shift poster makes me want to see the movie. The DVD cover of course has an opposite effect of similar strength.

http://www.moviegoods.com/large_detail.asp?http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/554549.1020.A.jpg

Grisso reminded me of this 1987 poster:

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/7181/amazonwomenonthemooneh1.jpg

saw these two IRL tonite, for sale at a record store (both jack davis):

http://i.imgur.com/7Vknrzr.png

http://i.imgur.com/H6cKxuk.png

God, SDJR was in like, half of these.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/99/MPW-49596

A friend just posted this one to her Facebook. Pretty fucking compelling cast, there.

Zalman King!

woah zalman king's first producer and writer credits

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-bingo-long-traveling-all-stars-and-motor-kings-movie-poster-1976-1020314381.jpg

Thrifted this one today. I have high hopes, though to be honest I would only like to laugh and have excitement.

American Hustle needed a poster like those ITT.

wolf of wall street too

Or "Argo", with an angry elbows-flailing Khomeini caricature up in the corner

http://www.filmlinks4u.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Madhouse-1990-%E2%80%93-Hollywood-Movie-Watch-Online.jpg

from 1990! This must be one of the last examples of this sort of style, surely?

whoever it was up-thread who said that these posters all make you want to watch the movies despite knowing they're mostly terrible was otm.
has anyone seen 'First Family'? A film starring Gilda Radner and Bob Newhart can't be totally worthless, right?

watching the trailers for some of these films on youtube is interesting, the voiceovers are giving the same kind of 'this movie is totally wacky and fun!' hard-sell as the posters, but at the very same time you can see actual clips from the film disproving this.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111103164719/doblaje/es/images/3/3a/Noviembrerosa.jpg

This one is from 1990 too, but yeah, it seems this aesthetic had died by the 90s.

Though I would argue that the basic aesthetic is still alive in "zany" comedy posters, it's just that the Jack Davis style caricatures have been replaced with digitally manipulated photos:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TKzvfeV488A/UXSZCBzI_yI/AAAAAAAABXg/_Ok1WdDB3Nw/s1600/Rat%2BRace%2Bposter.jpg

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/scary-movie-5-poster01.jpg

that rat race poster is hideous

http://vol11.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol11/521/521153/2353810-big/Les-Aventures-De-Rabbi-Jacob-cover.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/374573LESRIPOUX1.jpg

Now I'm curious: was there actually an elephant in Madhouse?

"Rat Race" is awful but at least they were trying to do one of "these." "Madhouse" and "Going Under" really show you the gig is up - they're slightly cartooned, barely caricatured airbrush art, and the only reason to do them that way is that it'd be tough to get all the actors in the right position (and to make the door bulge like that in "Madhouse"). Once computers and stuff make that easier...ehh. I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

Another awkward transition (sorry for huge):

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/brain-donors-movie-poster.jpg%3Fw%3D580

Did I miss a scene from this movie? Because I don't remember anything resembling this:

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/used-cars-movie-poste-style-b.jpg

I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

i'm guessing it's more that the detail in these kind of images gets lost on video/dvd covers and (nowadays) onscreen thumbnails.

Madhouse is a film I will always remember for this:

Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka"
Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
Claudia: You moron!
Bernice: I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!

In the category of homages/revivals, poster artist The Dude Designs strives "to paint, illustrate and hand assemble images which have personality, that invoke those memories and emotions you used to get when you held a video box in your hand or stared with amazement and curiosity at an illustrated movie poster." The blog gets into some detail on each poster, which is pretty sweet. He works in some different styles, and is mainly a horror guy, but a few are totally tapping into this vein. The one thing is that there's not much in the way of caricature - all the actors look pretty closely keyed off reference photos. This and the amount of modeling through shade (aibrush?) makes it look much more 80s than 70s... But still! Wish I'd seen his Heat poster everywhere instead of the shitty photo of the two leads on a pink background.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HBxx__w7rY0/UciL2XPX1PI/AAAAAAAA5gE/9F0_mgHkWMc/s1600/pdc_theheatposter4.jpg

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQxMTIyMzYzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM0MTI2OQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

http://nebula.wsimg.com/4151447b805ae0b771db4d32e3870d0a?AccessKeyId=71DC53FC6978419123ED&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

thread delivers!

I hope dude starts getting lots of work soon

Seems like he's doing okay - Heat was a pretty big movie even if they hardly used the poster - but agreed!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1621694_10152250443126563_939017797_n.jpg

Has anyone started making fanart of these for new movies?

I mean, I'm not crazy about stuff like this example, but I would be curious to see what someone else could come up with:

http://thisisnotadvertising.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-matrix.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/139/MPW-69614

borderline with "just any old illustration" but I think the explosions crammed into the still life at bottom left put it over. Wondering based on this one: was there a wave of The Sting ripoffs equivalent to the Smokey & the Bandit influence discussed above?

http://images.moviepostershop.com/every-which-way-but-loose-movie-poster-1978-1020199611.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/akJlaQD.png

old to semi-old caricatures you would travel back in time to, etc

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/85/MPW-42736

Not quite selling the madcap sexy humor, probably because it looks like Kate Jackson is about to stab Elliott Gould in the ear.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/bugsy-malone-movie-poster-1976-1020197146.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/49/MPW-24668

Bugsy Malone is kinda too nice / ordered for the thread, but I'm glad it's here

Yeah, it's definitely not 'the style,' but god is it just *packed*.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Inside_Moves_FilmPoster.jpeg

Could be busier or more caricatured, but bonus points for being totally fucking unappealing and giving you no idea what the movie will be about (note, i also thought it said "Inside Mars" at first, which REALLY through me off).

Marvel commissioned one in this style for the new Captain America movie:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TG40zdMjwqs/Uy2uRIqW6mI/AAAAAAAAUSU/ueJGshkGR6g/s1600/Cap-2-poster-col-paolo-rivera.jpg

Needs more caricature, or at least, would be awesome if they'd commissioned a poster depicting their serious superhero drama as a vaguely racy patriotic chase across the USA. Also, oh shit, the Falcon is in this movie?!

Was thinking last night though about the observation that these type of posters size down badly for VHS boxes and soundtrack albums on cassette, which I do think is pretty convincing - but man, with today's super giant size ad campaigns (images the size of a whole building! Two billboards that have to be seen from the right POV to correctly display as one image!) you could really see a revival of these. Fuck, even moderately large posters (like some of the really wide subway platform ones) could do wonders with this style. Right now they look like banner ads printed really big - there's nothing to hold your attention beyond the commanding stare of the star as cult object.